Single-player games like Deadline Escape
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Deadline Escape, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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ZERO Sievert
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
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Cargo Hunters
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Deadline Escape.
Cargo Hunters is a single-player extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth.
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Escape From Duckov
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
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Night Raider
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadline Escape.
Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...
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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Atomic Exile
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.
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Blood Running
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadline Escape.
Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?
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SurrounDead
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.